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Debian OpenOffice.org Critical Heap Overflow Risk CVE-2012-1149

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2012
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Important Security Notice DSA-2473-1 for OpenOffice.org highlights vulnerabilities related to buffer overflow and potential execution of arbitrary code.
Tielei Wang discovered that OpenOffice.org does not allocate a large enough memory region when processing a specially crafted JPEG object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow a...
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Summary

Tielei Wang discovered that OpenOffice.org does not allocate a large
enough memory region when processing a specially crafted JPEG object,
leading to a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code
execution.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.4.5-1 of the
libreoffice package.

We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: openoffice.org
CVE ID: CVE-2012-1149

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